Academic Staff: Mid-Career Award

Recipients of the L&S Academic Staff Mid-Career Award must have 8 or more years’ (including the current year) experience as outstanding leaders with substantial professional competency and the promise of continuing contributions.

All Recipients

2025-2026 Announcement Article

• Mary Ann Feist, Senior Academic Curator, Wisconsin State Herbarium, Department of Botany
• Peter Sengstock, Teaching, Learning, and Technology Manager, Department of Communication Arts  

2024-25

• Steven Kulig, Associate Director, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
• Elizabeth Rose, Academic Department Manager, Department of Psychology
• Chad Wilkinson, Teaching Faculty IV, Department of Chemistry
   

2023-24

• Audrey Conn, Director of Field Education and Clinical Professor, Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work
• Edward J. (Teddy) Kaul, Academic Advising Manager, Department of Art History
• Susan Koenig, Assistant Dean for Academic Deans' Services, L&S Student Academic Affairs

2022-23

• Brian Esselman, Organic Chemistry Lab, Distinguished Associate Director, Department of Chemistry
• Seth McGee, Specialist II, BioCore, Teaching, Learning, and Technology
• Lisa Klein Vogel, Scientist II, Institute for Research on Poverty
   

2021-22

• Brooke Norsted, Assistant Museum Director, Department of Geoscience
• Pete Pokrandt, User Support Specialist, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
• Changjiu Zhao, Associate Scientist, Department of Integrative Biology

2020-21

• Pamela Doolittle, Distinguished Faculty Associate/Analytical Lab Director, Department of Chemistry
• Nazan Gillie, Instructional Program Manager, Department of Zoology
• Michelle Harris, Distinguished Faculty Associate/Biocore Instructor

2019-20

• Sterling Anderson, Senior Information Processing Consultant, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Antje Petty, Senior Outreach Specialist, Max Kade Institute
• Marie Trest, Assoc Faulty Assoc, Botany

2018-19

• Rachel Bain, Instructional Technology Specialist, Department of Chemistry
• Ilia Guzei, Distinguished Scientist, Director of Crystallography, Chemistry Instrumentation Center, Department of Chemistry
• Sara Nagreen, IT Coordinator, Department of Mathematics

2017-18

• Nick Hill, Director of the Undergraduate Organic Laboratory, Department of Chemistry
• David Macasaet, Senior Information Processing Consultant, L&S Learning Support Services
• Gabriele Meyer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics
• Laura Monahan, Senior Academic Curator, UW Zoological Museum, Department of Integrative Biology

2016-17

• Nina Valeo Cooke, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
• Mark Wendt, Department of Chemistry
• Arrietta Clauss, Department of Chemistry

2015-16

• Araceli Alonso, Senior Lecturer, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies
• Jeffrey Henriques, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
• Sharon Kahn, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Geography
• Dianna Murphy, Founding Associate Director, The Language Institute

2014-15

• Brian Babler, Researcher, Department of Astronomy
• Shirin Malekpour, Faculty Associate and Wisconsin Emerging Scholars Program Coordinator, Department of Mathematics
• Debra Pierce, Faculty Associate, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

2013-14

• David Black, Administrative Program Manager, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
• Russell Dimond, Senior Information Processing Consultant, Social Science Research Services
• Thomas Gorski, Instrument Innovator, Department of Physics
• Ewa Miernowska, Senior Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature

2012-13

• Daniel Denhartog, Senior Scientist, Department of Physics
• Jennifer Tishler, Associate Faculty Associate, Center for Russia, East Europe & Central Asia (CREECA)

2011-12

• Tracy Drier, Senior Instrument Specialist, Department of Chemistry
• Jim Maynard, Senior Instructional Specialist, Department of Chemistry

2010-11

• Dana Longstreth, Associate Professor, Department of Communicative Disorders
• Rob McClain, Faculty Associate, Department of Chemistry
• Rachel Weiss, Assistant Director, Center for South Asia
• Doug Worsham, Learning Support Services

2009-10

• Brett Chapman, Senior Scientist, Department of Physics

2008-09

• John Stevenson, Associate Director, Survey Center

2007-08

• Dr. Scott Mellor, Academic Staff, Department of Scandinavian Studies
• Dr. Ieva Reich, Academic Staff, Department of Chemistry

2006-07

• Dr. Jeff Percival, Academic Staff, Department of Astronomy
• Michelle Quinn, Academic Staff, Department of Communicative Disorders

2005-06

• Gloria Mari-Beffa, Academic Staff, Department of Mathematics
• Merritt Dietz, Academic Staff, Department of French and Italian
• Paul Hanson, Academic Staff, Center for Limnology

2004-05

• Nelly Halzen, Academic Staff, Department of French and Italian,
• Matthew J. Sanders, Academic Staff, Department of Chemistry

2003-2004

• Jane Perlmutter, School of Library and Information Studies
• Rebecca Ryan, Cross-College Advising Services
• Mary Jo Studenberg, Southeast Asian Studies

2001-2002

• Bruno Browning, Learning Support Services
• Anthony Jacob, Department of Chemistry
• Jack Solock, Data and Information Services Center